Trace-buckle.



No. 818,559. PATENTED APR. 24, 1906. 0. RAMPENDAHL.

TRACE BUCKLE.

APPLIOATIDN FILED AUG. 3. 1905.

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TRACE-BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented April 24, 1906.

Application tiled August 3,1905. Serial No. 272.569.

To [ch/mt if 'muy con/ecrit:

Be it known that 1 O'r'ro lianenNimi-IL, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Helena, in the county of Napa and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trace-Buckles, and l. do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine.

This invention relates to improvements in trace-buckles.

The object of the invention is to provide a buckle of this character with which the ends of a trace may be quickly attached, detached, or adjusted.

further object is to provide means whereby the working parts of the buckle may be protected and guided in its movement.

Vith the above and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 a plan view of a buckle constructed in accordance with the invention and showing the same applied to a trace. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view taken through the center of the buckle, showing in full lines the position of the parts when in use and in dotted lines the position of the parts when the trace is to be connected or disconnected therefrom. Figi. 4 is a plan view of the inner plate or member ol" the buckle.

VReferring more particularlyY to the drawings, 1 denotes the base-plate of the buckle, said base-plate being provided with laterallyprojecting parallel side flanges. The plate 1 is further provider on one end with an extension 3, in which is formed transversely-disposed slots or passages 4 and 5. In the baseplate 1 is formed a centrally-disposed aperture 6. On the side flanges l are formed outward laterally-projecting studs 7, said studs being arranged substantially midway bctween said flanges, as shown. On the flanges l are formed or otherwise secured laterallyprojecting longitudinally-disposed guardloops S. Loosely mounted on the base-plate 1 is a bail-shaped clasp 9, said clasp consistingI of curved parallel side bars 1l), which are connected together at their outer ends by means of a llat plate 12 and are connected at their inner ends by means of a bolt 13. On the plate 12 is formed an inwardly-projecting rigid tongue 14, which is adapted, when the buckle is closed, to engage one of the eyelets in the end of the trace and the aperture (i in the base-plate, thereby securely holding the end of the trace in the buckle. The side bars 1() of the clasp l are curved on their lower edges to bear upon guide-studs T when the two members of the buckle are pushed together to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3. This movement throws the tongue 1-1 upward to disengage the trace, and when the latter' is again adjusted a pull in opposite directions upon the haine-tug 15 and the trace will carry the clasp tl downward, owing to the side bars ll) at their upper edges engaging the guard-loops S on the member 1.

To the bolt 13 is adapted to be connected a llame-tug strap l5, and in connecting the trace thereto the end of the same is inserted through the slot et of the extension 23 on the base-plate and between the side [langes l thereon until one of the eyelets in said trace is brought to a position over the aperture in the base-plate, at which time the clasp 9 is swung inward ly to force the tongue 14 thereon through said eyelet in the trace and through the aperture in the base-plate, as shown. Thus when a draft is applied to the trace, said clasp will tightly hold the same in connection with the base-plate, as will be understood. lf desired, a guard-loop 1G may be arranged on the haine-tug strap to receive the end ol the trace after passing through the buckle.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation ol' the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

llaving thus described my invention, what lv claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isrbuckle of the character described consisting of a base-plate having a centrally-disposed aperture, flanges formed on the sides of said plate to receive the end ol a trace, a slotted extension formed on one end of said plate, a bail-shaped clasp provided with a` cross-bar IOO having a stud proj eating centrally therefrom my hand in presence of two subscribing Wity to engage the trace and the aperture in the nesses.

base-plate, studs proj eating laterallyfrom the f l base-plate, and guard-loops projecting out- OTTO RAMPENDAHL' 5 Wardly from said base-plate7 substantially as Witnesses:

described. W. E. GERK,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set H. L. CHILES. 

